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See also: SMYTH, See also:SIR WARINGTON See also:WILKINSON (1817-1890) , See also:British geologist, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the 26th of See also:August 1817, his See also:father, See also:Admiral W. H. Smyth (1788-1865), being at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time engaged in the See also:Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean. He was educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Bedford schocls, and after-wards at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839. Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in See also:Europe, See also:Asia See also:Minor, See also:Syria and See also:Egypt, paying See also:great See also:attention to See also:mineralogy and See also:mining, examining coalfields, metalliferous mines and See also:salt-See also:works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists. On his return to See also:England in 1844 he was appointed mining geologist on the See also:Geological Survey, and in 1851 lecturer at the School of Mines, a See also:post which he held until 1881 when he relinquished the See also:chair of mineralogy but continued as See also:professor of mining. In later years he became See also:chief See also:mineral inspector to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office of See also:Woods and Forests, and also to the Duchy of See also:Cornwall. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858. He became See also:president of the Geological Society of See also:London in 1866-1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal See also:Commission appointed to inquire into accidents in mines, the See also:work in connexion with which continued until 1886. He contributed sundry papers to the See also:Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quarterly See also:Journal of the Geological Society and the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He was author also of A See also:Year with the See also:Turks (1854), and of A See also:Treatise on See also:Coal and Coal-mining (1867). He was knighted in 1887. He died in London on the 19th of See also: June 189o, and was buried at St Erth, not far from his See also:country See also:home at See also:Marazion in Cornwall.
A portrait and some reminiscences of W. W. Smyth will be found in the Memoir of Sir A. C. See also:Ramsay (1895), by Sir A. See also:Geikie.
End of Article: SMYTH, SIR WARINGTON WILKINSON (1817-1890)
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